Julia Reads A Game of Thrones - Chapter 6: Catelyn

There are a few words I really hate.  Like "yogurt".  Especially when it's spelled "yoghurt" and it's pronounced in a British way with the "h" oddly emphasized.  But the worst offender, and possibly a very small part of the reason this review took a month and a half from initial reading to writing, is the word "loins".  Does anyone like that word?  Not only does it refer to a region of the body that society tends to feel uncomfortable about, it also just sounds inherently awkward.  Loins.  The fact that this chapter used this word so early on is pretty much the only thing I remembered about it after reading it so long ago. 

I should have gone to sleep an hour ago, so I'm going to bust out the rest of this review as fast as possible.  I want to read more, but this chapter will keep blocking me unless I take care of it now.

1. I would NOT want to live in a building that has steaming hot water rushing through the walls constantly without the containment of modern plumbing.  Hello, erosion?  Earthquakes?  Well, at least the Starks will probably get killed in some political entanglements before their poor architecture choices can scald them to death.  
2. Hello, Maester Luwin!  Where is my little old man who hides books and children's toys up his giant sleeves?
3. I would not want to be royalty in this world where dead animals are legitimate portents and every message has three layers and a secret compartment.  
4. I like how Catelyn is all, "Well of course I'm naked.  This message is far more important than clothing and it's not like Maester Luwin is seeing anything he hasn't already."  Respect: +2
5. Murder!  Too bad I really don't remember much about this Jon Arryn bloke right now, other than that he's been dead since the beginning.  I should probably go back and look that up.
6. Catelyn hates Jon Snow.  I mean, I get it, but if she was cool with Lord Stark going out and knocking up women while on campaign because he has a "man's needs"...  It's hard to judge this one because this is so clearly a different world and the rules that royalty live by are very tricky (particularly inheritance).   It's sad, though, because I like Jon Snow, and I would have thought that maybe after so many years Catelyn would have forgiven him a birth that he couldn't help.  Respect: -4
7. At least Jon gets to go into the Night's Watch as he wants, even if I do think that he might just be going through his teenage emo phase.

Also, this is the first chapter to repeat a perspective.  I was really starting to hope that George R.R. Martin would find a way to use a different character each time.